A British General and a garrison of
solders on horseback investigated the Hunza
River Valley in the 1870s. Hunza was a tiny kingdom located in a remote valley
100 miles (160 km) long and only one mile (1.6 km) wide, situated at an elevation of
8,500 feet (2590 m), and completely enclosed by mountain peaks. These peaks soar
to a height of 25,550 feet (7788 m) and belong to the Karakoram Range, broadly known in the West as
the Himalayas.Hunza is now part of Pakistan in the northern
section bordering on Afghanistan, Russia, China, Kashmir, and India. The Kilik
Pass leads to Russia and the Mintaka Pass to China.

The pass to reach Hunza from Gilgit,
Pakistan, was 13,700 feet
(4176 m) high, a difficult and
treacherous trail. Upon
entering the valley, the British found the steep, rocky sides of the valley
lined with terraced garden plots, fruit trees, and animals being raised for meat
and milk.

The gardens were
watered with mineral-rich glacier water carried by an aqueduct system running a
distance of 50 miles (80 km) from the Ultar Glacier on the 25,550 foot (7788 m) high Mount
Rakaposhi. The wooden aqueduct trough was hung from the sheer cliffs by steel nails hammered into the rock walls.
Silt from the river below was carried up the side of the valley to form and
replenish the terraced gardens. The average annual precipitation in Hunza is less than two
inches.

Ultar
Peak rising above Baltit, the capital of Hunza, is spectacular. The Old Palace is
on the hill above the village. Click the
picture to see an enlargement.

The difficult trail into Hunza kept the people
isolated. As late as 1950, most of the children of Hunza had never seen a wheel or a
Jeep
even though airplanes were landing at the airport in Gilgit, Pakistan, only 70
miles (112 km) away. John Clark reported in his book, Hunza - Lost Kingdom of the
Himalayas, that he could see three peaks above 25,000 feet and eleven
glaciers all at once from Shishpar Glacier Nullah (canyon) overlooking
the Hunza valley. See page 92 in John Clark's book listed below.

The Hunzakuts, as they are called,
had signed a peace treaty with their neighboring communities about 10 years
prior to the arrival of the British. They had been a warrior community preying upon the Chinese trading
caravans as they traveled the high mountain passes between Sinkiang and
Kashmir. The Hunzakuts profited for a time by their thievery, plunder, and
murder, but they were hated by their neighbors. According to Hunzakut folklore,
a peace treaty was signed because
the Mir's son convinced his father to end their murderous ways.

Burushaski, the language of the Hunzakuts, is much different from other languages of the
region and appears to be a mixture of the languages of Ancient
Macedonian and the Hellenistic
Persian Empire. However, the people also learned to speak the written Urdu
language of Pakistan and other languages of the region.

The
terraced gardens were extensive with up to 50 cascading levels. The people lived in communities
below. It was a
considerable distance to walk to work in the fields. They had no roads or wheeled
carts. All the grain and other produce was transported to the homes on the backs of men
and
animals. Click the picture to see an
enlargement.

Everything in Hunza valley was
always in
short supply except crumbling rocks. Fuel for heating and cooking was severely
limited, and fodder
for feeding the animals was precious.
Animal dung was used for garden fertilizer rather than fuel for fires as was
done elsewhere. Supplies from outside of the valley were
limited by the difficulty in bring goods over the high mountain pass. Highly
prized goods brought in from the outside included guns, knifes, tools, metal
pots, stoves, lamps, cotton cloth, silk cloth, thread, needles, matches, mirrors, glassware, and some construction metals
such as
bolts, rods, sheet, and plate. As late as 1951, these items had to be carried on
the backs of men or animals. In past centuries traditional dress and bedding
were made from
sheepskins and other animal hides.

The original valley was mostly bare
rock with a very limited amount of indigenous plant life. The sudden appearance
of the vegetation in contrast to the surrounding barren rock earned the valley
the description of being Shangri-La or the Garden of Eden. Given the hard work
required to tend the gardens and animals, the description of Garden of Eden
certainly did not apply to the Hunza River Valley.

Mir
Muhammed Ghazan Khan I ruled from 1864 to 1886. Folklore stories say he sent his brother a gift of a cloak impregnated with smallpox and
murdered his uncle and other brothers, but the facts are rather unknown. He was murdered in 1886 by Safdar Ali
Khan who became the new ruler of Hunza. Mir Safdar Ali Khan is shown in the picture at the left. Click
the picture to see an enlargement. In 1891 an expedition of 5,000 men lead by British Colonel
Algernon Durand was attacked by the Hunzakut leader, Mir Safdar Ali Khan. The
Mir fled
to China and was replaced by his half-brother,
Muhammed Nazim Klan. Mir Nazim Klan died in 1938 of mysterious
causes, and it is
highly suspect that his son, Muhammed Ghazan Khan II, was involved in his death.
He died in 1946 and was replaced by his son, Muhammed Jamal Khan. Mir Muhammed Jamal Khan was
deposed in 1974 by Pakistan although he maintained his property in
Hunza. He died in Gilgit, Pakistan, in 1976 were he also had a residence. Mir
Muhammed Jamal Khan could also speak perfect English because he had been educated by the
British as a boy. His descendents maintain their royal titles but have no ruling authority in Hunza.Ancestry
of Hunza Rulers Since the 16th Century.

The Original Hunza People.

The story of Hunza is thought to
have begun with Alexander III or Alexander
the Great (July 356 BC to June 10, 323 BC), son of King Philip of Macedon
(Ancient Macedonia west of Greece). Alexander was a brilliant warrior, more
capable than his father. After his father's murder, Alexander set out toward the
east to conquer neighboring kingdoms. He conquered Greece in short fashion and
continued toward Persia where he eventually burned the capital and the national
library in a great defeat of the Persians.

Three generals in Alexander's army
are said to have married Persian women. The generals betrayed Alexander by
giving the Persians his plans. When Alexander heard of the betrayal he sought to
take revenge, but the generals, wives, and a band of many soldiers fled. The valley of Hunza is
thought to have been their valley of refuge because
of its remote and secure location.

It is likely that the Hunza
valley was already sparsely inhabited when the Macedon generals arrived. Certainly these tough
fighting warriors made quick work of slaughtering the ancient inhabitants of
Hunza. Though this is purely speculation, it is highly probable. The desolate rocky valley
could not have supported the Macedonians unless some farms had been slowly built by
others over the preceding centuries.

Hunza became an independent kingdom
with a monarchy. The King used the title of Mir. The British disrupted the ruling
organization of the Hunza people.

"The Mir, or ruler, of Hunza believed his tiny kingdom to be the equal of China, and likened himself to Alexander the Great from whom he claimed descent. When the British turned up in the 1870s, he took them for petitioners seeking to make Queen Victoria his vassal. Not wishing to waste time arguing, the colonial officials had him deposed, replacing him with an amenable brother whom the
Mir had carelessly neglected to murder on his way to the throne."A
Kind of Kingdom in Paradise.

The British reported a population of
about 8,000
people who were in good health and lived long lives, although their ages could not be
verified since the Hunza people had no written records. The
people were relatively healthy, especially when compared to the citizens in
England where obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease ravaged the British
due of their high carbohydrate diet of grains, bread, sugar, honey, fruit
and potatoes. The Hunza people were slender, healthy, and athletic compared
to relatives of the British solders at home in England who were fat and sickly.

The Hunza tribesmen are shown in the
picture. Click the picture to see an enlargement.

The Hunzakuts had lighter skin than
the neighboring tribes and appeared to be of Caucasian origin. In 1950, John Clark reported
seeing children with
black, brown, and blond hair and an occasional redhead. They probably chose the Hunza River Valley because
of its sheer isolation, but the men took wives from neighboring peoples. Hunza
women were said to have been beautiful. This is highly probable since the
Persian women taken as captives were likely the best looking. See page 69 in John Clark's book.

The Hunza people were land poor
since there was never enough space to provide plenty. Shortage was always
present, and people lived in fear of the springtime starvation when food ran desperately
low.

Hunza had no soil as such. The glacial silt that formed the terraced gardens was simply ground rock. All of the animal
manure was spread on the gardens to fertilize the crops and trees. The people defecated directly on the garden, and the soil was deficient in
lime and phosphates, causing the trees and plants to suffer. The garden yield was
considerably less than in the United States and elsewhere where good soil is
available. The nitrate fertilizer from animal and human excrement was quickly flushed from the silt by
the weekly flooding with glacial water.

The Hunzakuts called this "the
land of just enough." The truth is Hunza was always a land of never enough,
and everything was in short supply including the usable land which was limited
to five acres (20,000 sq. m) per family. Animals were limited because of the
lack of grazing pastures in the lower valley. The goats, sheep, and Yaks
were moved to the higher mountains in summer in search of the sparse vegetation.
The herdsmen had an excess of milk while the people in the valley suffered a
shortage. This is the reason summer visitors to Hunza see a people eating a
low-fat, near-vegetarian diet. The winter diet was vastly different.

The Primary Books Written About
Hunza.

John Clark (1909 - 1994) earned his
doctorate in geology at Princeton University in 1935. As an officer in the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Clark explored nine thousand miles of roads and trails
in Kansu and Sinkiang, China. Clark decided to help the people of Hunza because
of his
wide geological experience and some medical expertise. He went to Hunza in 1950 and
1951 and wrote the book, Hunza
- Lost Kingdom of the Himalayas, in 1957. He
traveled by horseback over the rugged and dangerous trail for 70 miles from
Gilgit and found the people to be strong, intelligent, and proud of their
independence. In his 20 month stay, he got to know the Hunza people on a
personal level, and with his 20 years' experience in first aid as a field
geologist, he ran a free dispensary where he treated 5,684 patients with sulphas, penicillin, paludrines, atabrine, undecylenic acid, and
other drugs. His reference medical books were Cutting's Manual of
Therapeutics, Merck Manual, Gardiner's Handbook of Skin Diseases,
and Medical
Council Practice Papers. See page 75 in the 1957 first edition of the
book. The pages in the pdf file below do not match the pages in the book.

Clark traveled to investigate the geology of the entire region, searching for natural
resources such as minerals
or metals. He brought in new vegetable seeds and taught basic
carpentry and crafts to a school of boys. Clark's book is exciting reading and describes the Hunza people in great detail.
It is an excellent resource.

This picture shows the Hunza River
in winter near Aliabad with Mountain Rakaposhi in the background. The stream and
canyon entering the valley from the left is Hasanabad Nullah. This is one of the
many ravines that Clark explored. The valley does not get much snow in winter
even though the temperature falls below zero degrees Fahrenheit (-10 C). Click on
the picture to see an enlargement.

On his
first trip through Hunza, Clark reported he acquired almost all of the same misconceptions as
others:
"the healthy Hunza, the Democratic Court, and the land where there are no
poor." He soon found the actual situation to be much different.

Dr. Allen E. Banik and Renee Taylor
wrote the book, Hunza Land, in 1960. They describe Hunza on the
front inside of the dust jacket. "They have no money, no poverty, no
disease, no police and no jails." All of these claims are false. Their
money was the Pakistan rupee as they were a part of Pakistan. They
had poverty. Those who could not grow their own food simply starved to death.
Family groups were staunchly independent and did not help others as Dr. Banik
claims. They had considerable disease and often flooded into John Clark's dispensary for treatment. They had a ruling organization in each village with men
serving in security positions. The Mir had armed body guards that kept out of
sight of the visitors. They had a penal colony at Shimshal Valley in the north
end of the valley where inmates
attended to flocks of sheep owned by the Mir. It was a dreadful sentence to be
banished to Shimshal. The winters were icy
cold and the high winds blew continuously. The claims in this book about
the diet, health, longevity, and honesty of the Hunza people are false.

Renee Taylor, a lecturer,
linguist, and world traveler, wrote the book, Hunza
Health Secrets For Long Life and Happiness, in 1964. She traveled to Hunza during the summer of 1960
over a Jeep road that had just been built a few years previously. Taylor lived a
couple of months as a guest of the Mir at his palace in the Hunza capital of
Baltit. She traveled very little and did not get the opportunity to develop any
close personal relationships with the common Hunzakut. Taylor heard only
filtered information presented by the Mir, his staff, and selected individuals.
Unfortunately, Taylor did not learn the truth while in Hunza. She never ventured
out alone to live with the people and learn the truth behind this facade. Her
movements were strictly controlled by the Mir, and she was presented an orchestrated
view of Hunza that the Mir wanted her to pass on to the world.

Scarcely two
consecutive sentences in Taylor's book can be read without finding errors, distortions, and blatant
untruth. The Hunza people certainly did a good job of deceiving her. Renee Taylor
appears to have ventured to Hunza with an agenda to proclaim the Hunzakuts to be the most healthy and long-lived
people on the earth while subsisting on a low-fat, mostly vegetarian diet. These claims are
false.

Other books about Hunza are not
referenced here because the goal of this web page is to dispense the truth about
Hunza, not the lies.

The Difference Between the Original Hunza Summer
Diet and Winter Diet.

The British General and soldiers
arrived in the summer during the 1870s as did everyone who traveling to Hunza. This was the
harvest season for the grains, fruits, and vegetables from the gardens, and much of
the food was consumed raw. Because fuel for cooking was saved to be used in
winter for boiling meat and providing some heat for the stone dwellings, very little meat was consumed
in summer, and vegetables were eaten raw.

Curious visitors who followed the
British soldiers to Hunza Valley years later naturally arrived in summer also, and the summer
diet of the people led visitors to assume they were mainly
vegetarian and ate very little meat. This was typical of the summer
harvest season. Many primitive cultures including cavemen lived in a similar
manner, gorging themselves on available fruit during the short season and eating mostly meat
for the rest of the year. The people of Hunza differed in
that they never had an abundance of anything except rocks. They did not have
enough animals to provide abundant meat during the winter because of the lack of
fodder. They did not want to kill female animals that were milk producers unless
the animal was old or lame.

Other world cultures who have had
vast lands of rich, lush pastures always lived an easier life by eating the
domesticated or wild animals. Hunza was always the opposite. Pasture land was
nonexistent. The animals were kept in pens and fed with gathered vegetation
waste from the gardens consisting of leaves, twigs, and grasses. It was a highly
labor-intensive culture, but they had no choice. They eventually ate every
animal that was born. Most of the males were eaten upon reaching near full size
and as fodder ran low. A few were kept for breeding purposes only. The females
were killed and eaten when milk production ran low or when they failed to
produce an offspring. The oldest females were killed and eaten as fodder ran low
during the harsh late winter season. Hunza was never a "Garden of
Eden" as falsely claimed in numerous books full of distortions, myths, and
lies.

The Hunzakuts are said to have cultivated plants included barley, millet, wheat, buckwheat, turnips, carrots,
dried beans, peas, pumpkins,
melons, onions, garlic, cabbage, cauliflower, apricots, mulberries, walnuts,
almonds, apples, plums, peaches, cherries, pears, and pomegranates. John Clark
did not find green beans, wax beans, beets, endive, lettuce, radishes, turnips,
spinach, yellow pear tomatoes, Brussel sprouts, or parsley. Cherry tomatoes and potatoes are thought to have been brought in
by the British. The long list of currently grown plant varieties should not be a consideration when
discussing the longevity of the Hunzakuts and their past diet.

Apricot trees were very
popular, and the
fruit was eaten raw in season and sun dried for winter. The pits were cracked
to obtain the kernel that was crushed to obtain the oil for cooking and lamps. The
hard shell was kept for a fire fuel. The kernel and oil could be eaten from the variety of
apricots with a sweet kernel, but the bitter kernel variety had an oil
containing poisonous prussic acid. Click the picture to see an enlargement.

The apricot trees were allowed to
grow very large in order to obtain the maximum yield. Picking the maximum amount of fruit was more important
than the difficulty in picking. The
children would scamper to the higher branches to pick or shake off the fruit. Planting new trees required several
years of growth before any fruit was produced. The special garden silt or glacial milk
did not contribute to the age or size of the trees as is commonly claimed. Our
modern orchards are not managed that way because we have abundant space and picking is expensive. Our trees are cut when the size makes them
difficult to harvest, not because they fail to live as long as those in
Hunza.

Mulberries, which resemble
blackberries in size and shape, are a favorite fruit. When fully ripe,
their flavor is sweet-sour but somewhat bland. The variety grown in Hunza was
most likely a golden color.

A large variety of indigenous wildlife
including markhors sheep, Marco Polo sheep, geese, ducks, pheasants, and partridge provided the early Hunza hunters with meat in addition to their sheep,
goats, and domesticated Yaks. Chickens were also raised for meat and eggs until
sometime in the 1950s when they were banned by the Mir.

The
Queen and her children traveled on Yaks while the King and other men rode
horses. The Yak is a strong wild animal which they domesticated for for traveling
in the mountains as a beast of burden pack animal. In addition to Yaks, which provided milk and meat, the Hunzakuts
also had goats, sheep, cows, and horses. However, there were very few cows or horses in
Hunza in 1950
because they consumed a lot of fodder compared to goats and sheep. The Yaks, goats, and
sheep were herded in the summer to areas just below the snow line for
feeding on sparse grasses and plants. They were milked by the herders who made
butter that was delivered back to the people in the villages below. The herders
had plenty of milk to drink that valley people lacked. The Yaks were also
milked. Cows and horses could not be herded to the higher elevation because the
vegetation there was simply to sparse.

The
picture is of the Cathedral Peaks as viewed from the village of Ghulmit, 23 miles
(37 km) upriver from Baltit near the northern end of Hunza. Summer grains are seen
growing in the foreground. The Mir's main Palace was in Baltit, but since
firewood was more abundant in Ghulmit, he chose this location for his winter residence.
Click the picture to see an enlargement.

A great celebration was held
to commemorate the barley harvest, the first harvest of the
early summer to break the spring starvation period. The barley was ground, mixed with water, and
fried to make a pancake style bread called chapatis, and hot stones were used for cooking the bread
prior to the availability of steel plate or cast iron griddles. The bread recipe
would change to whatever grain was available. Wheat was harvested later in the summer.
The Hunza bread recipe found in books and on websites is nothing whatsoever like
the various breads of the Hunzakuts. The primitive Hunzakuts ground grains
between two rocks much like the North American Indians. They had constructed a
water wheel-powered stone grinder by the time John Clark had arrived, but many
people still ground the grain by hand.

To their credit, the Hunzakuts did developed a
double-crop farming method. Barley was the first crop harvested, then replaced by millet. Wheat was harvested later in the summer
followed by
winter buckwheat. The double-crop planting method was done to make the maximum
use of the valuable land, not because grains matured faster in Hunza as often
claimed.

In summer, meat was conserved for
very special occasions and festivals. Livestock were much too valuable to be
killed indiscriminately, so animals became a major source of food only during the cold
winter when other foods ran out.

The Original Hunza Winter Diet.

The Hunza people sun dried fruit in
the summer and stored grain for winter consumption. They also had some meat. They consumed all parts of the animals, not just the flesh. They ate the
animal's brain, lungs, heart, liver, tripe, flesh, and everything else except the hide,
wind-pipe, and genitalia. They cleaned bones to a polish and broke them to eat the
marrow. The fat was highly favored for cooking, and a stew was made by boiling meat and grains.

Mountain
Karakoram as seen from Aliabad village. Click on the picture to see an
enlargement.

The Yaks, goats, and sheep were bred each
year for the meat and to keep the milk production flowing. The females were
kept for breeding and milk production until reaching a nonproductive age when
they were also slaughtered for food. Any lame animal was slaughtered to prevent
the loss of meat. The food supply was critical, and springtime starvation was always
a concern for hungry children.

The Hunzakuts had a major flaw in
their method of raising animals. They kept equal numbers of males and females,
which reduced the productivity. If a Hunza farmer had six sheep he would
have three ewes and three rams. The ewes would have three lambs each spring. The
production could have been increased to five lambs each spring if they had kept
five ewes and one ram. The rams also ate more fodder but produced no milk. The
same was true for goats. This faulty farming practice reduced the amount milk,
meat, and number of offspring each year.

During the winter, a major part of the diet
consisted of milk, buttermilk, yogurt, butter, and cheese. The diet was a high-fat diet
throughout the year contrary to false claims that they ate a low-fat diet. The milk was more than 50 percent fat
on a calorie basis and nothing was
wasted.

The spring starvation was a
difficult period for the Hunzakuts. This was the period when the fodder stores
for animal feed ran dangerously low or was totally consumed. The animals
suffered as well and those who were vulnerable were killed and eaten by the
starving people. The children were extremely thin and malnourished.
Diseases abound and many died. The "healthy Hunza" claim made in many
books and websites is strictly false.

The Hunza Longevity Myth.

John Clark did not make any mention
whatsoever about the Hunza people living to an especially old age. The British
general who first visited Hunza in the 1870s said there were old people but
gave no indication as to the ages. At that time in history, a person beyond 50
years of age was considered to be well beyond the average life expectancy.

This
picture shows old Hunza men who proclaim to a visitor that they are more than 100
years of age. They appear to be 70 to 80 years of age which would be more
accurate. Because this is a recent picture taken by tourists, these
gentlemen were probably never born or raised in Hunza. They most likely arrived
from other areas of Pakistan, drawn to the opportunity of collecting a gratuity
from the unsuspecting traveler for the privilege of taking their picture.

Hunzakuts are known for their
folklore and story telling as are most primitive people. After switching from
being a warrior people to a peaceful people, the Hunzakuts developed a highly
over-inflated opinion of themselves. They thought the British soldiers had come
to surrender to their leadership. They viewed themselves as living in the land
of perfect, and they claimed theirs was the perfect society. They were and continue
to be very much in denial of their true situation. This attitude is not uncommon
among primitive peoples. Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson reported a very
similar attitude among the primitive Eskimos who had never seen a white man. The
Eskimos bragged that their Shaman (religious leader) could kill a bear on the
other side of the mountain with a bow and arrow, and that he could travel to the
Moon, converse with the people living there and return. The Eskimo considered
themselves to be far superior to the white man who admitted to having never been
to the moon. This was in 1910 before white man did travel to the Moon,
walk on the surface and return, although not finding the people whom the Eskimo
claimed lived there.Stefansson 1 - Eskimos Prove An All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.

Exaggerations of the longevity of
the Hunza people have exploded because the British General reported that the Hunza
people lived to a healthy old age. Some claims are now being made that
the Hunzakuts lived 150 to 200 years of age. These claims are pure
nonsense. The claim that the people lived to 110 years of age is also false. The
thought of a Garden of Eden has many imaginations running wild. The following is
a typical example of the wild myths being propagated.

"The Hunza of the title is a
valley in the Himalayan foothills of northern Pakistan. The Hunza people are
best known for their healthy diet and lifestyle that supposedly result in
people living to the age of 150 and having an active sex life until the age of
200 — or something like that."

The health of the present-day Hunza
is known for certain. The following is a present day observation.

"As
someone who has lived and worked in the Hunza and Baltistan region of northern
Pakistan for a decade, it is important to first debunk the myth that the
Burushushki, Wakhi and Shina people of the Hunza region are blessed with the
lives of Methusula. This was actually a myth which gained momentum when it was
written up by Dr. Alexander Leaf, in the January 1973 issue of National
Geographic magazine. There is absolutely no scientific validity to his claim. People
of the Hunza suffer from malnutrition and nutrition deficiencies just as much
as any other remote mountain region in SE Asia. Although the predominantly
Ismaeli faith (branch of Shi-ite muslims) are progressive and relatively
better off than most of their neighbours in nearby regions, they will all tell
any visitor, that their life expectancy is around 50 - 60 years, just like any
other region of northern Pakistan."

The lack of resources left the Hunza
people in a constant struggle to obtain their food, and the mountain farming on
the sides of the steep rocky valley required a lot of hard work. The caloric
intake was naturally low and never in abundance. This combination of factors
prevented the Hunza people from becoming obese and lead to the avoidance of
diseases caused by a diet with an abundance of carbohydrates.Absolute
Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Are Pathogenic.

The Mir gave Renee Taylor the secret
to the longevity claim of the Hunzakuts, but she totally missed the implication.
He said,

"Age has nothing to do with
the calendar." See page 51.

Taylor confirmed that the people did
not look to be as old as they claimed.

"He looked about fifty, but
he told me that he was about eighty." See page 60.

The Hunzakuts had developed the
practice of equating age with wisdom, experience, and achievement. A wise farmer of 50
years of age who had accumulated much more than the average farmer could
rightly claim to be 120 years of age instead of his truly 50 calendar years.
Taylor said she saw a man playing and jumping at a game of volleyball who said
he was 145
years old but looked to be only 50 or maybe 60. See page 63. Taylor tries to lead
the reader into believing these men were very old. In fact, they were not. It is
doubtful that they were even 50 or 60. The dry, dusty air of Hunza and the
nutritional deficiencies most likely made the people look much older than they
really were. This man was probably between 40 and 50 years of age but claimed
to be 145 years old.

Renee Taylor made no attempt
assemble the descendants of any of the older people in order to gain some confirmation
as to age. It certainly would have made a point if she had taken a picture, but
it
was impossible to take a picture of eight living generations because the man's
age was a big lie. She could have easily taken such a picture if "nobody
ever gets sick in Hunza." The picture would have been interesting and
looked something like this.

Man claiming to be 145 years of
age jumping and playing volleyball.

Son of 125 years of age.

Grandson of 105 years of age.

Great grandson of 85 years of
age.

Great great grandson of 65 years
of age.

Great great great grandson of 45
years of age.

Great great great great grandson
of 25 years of age.

Great great great great great
grandson of 5 years of age.

Visitors have taken many pictures of
family groups in
Hunza showing babies with their father and
grandfather. These grandfathers are unlikely to be any older than they appear. They are
perhaps 50 years of age as is common for a grandfather, not 120 years of age as some books falsely claim.

The Hunza Vegetarian Myth.

The Hunza people were never
vegetarians or even close to it. They refrained from eating many of their animals in summer
because animals were the main
source of food in the remaining 10 months of the year. They ate a high-fat diet all year long, especially in winter when the consumption of animal fats
increased. The butter, yogurt, and cheese made from the goat, sheep, and Yak milk was
very high in fat, especially saturated fats. The Hunza people were somewhat vegetarian
for two or three months during the summer.

The diet that vegetarian authors
claim was eaten by the Hunza people can be found in other modern and primitive
societies. The present people in Southern India are strict vegetarians by
religious conviction, but they have the shortest life span on earth as
scientifically proven. They are ravaged by disease and diet deficiencies, and suffer from frail body
structures. The children exhibit a failure to thrive, and the childhood
mortality is very high.

The ancient people of Egypt in the
days of the Pharaohs ate a diet almost identical to that claimed for the Hunza
people by present-day vegetarian authors, but the health of the Egyptians was a
disaster. The Egyptians had a written language that described diseases such as
tooth decay, obesity, and heart disease. They lived on the fertile flood plain of
the Nile River delta. Life was easy, and grains, fruits, and vegetables were
grown in an overwhelming abundance. The Bible tells of the abundance in Egypt
while surrounding peoples were suffering drought and famine. The Egyptians
mummified hundreds of thousands of people whose preserved remains are available
for study today. The bodies can be examined today to identify diseases and diet
deficiencies. Even though they had a abundance of food they suffered terribly from
rotten teeth, osteoporosis, diabetes, and heart disease. Soft tissue diseases
such as cancer are more difficult to trace in the mummies. Heart disease would
have not been identified had it not been for the Egyptian writings. The cause of
the Egyptians poor health was the abundance of carbohydrate foods not
unlike the abundance found in supermarkets today.Absolute
Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Are Pathogenic.

Many people jump to the conclusion
that the water diverted from glacial runoff was the source of special healing
and life-extending properties. The gardens were
watered with mineral rich glacier water carried by an aqueduct system for a
distance of 50 miles (80 m) from the Ultar Glacier on the 25,550 foot (7789 m) high Mount
Rakaposhi.

The wooden aqueduct trough was hung from the sheer cliffs by steel nails hammered into the rock walls.
Rocks beneath the glacier were ground into a fine powder or silt by the pressure
and weight to give the water a slight milky color, thus it was described as
"Glacial Milk." Click on the picture to see an enlargement.

There are those who claim the Hunza water is rich in
cesium and potassium, thereby making it rich with caustically (alkaline) active
metals that prevent and cure cancer. Some modern doctors are giving cesium
therapy treatments to cure cancer, but cesium does not cure cancer.

The glacier water used to flood the garden
plots did provide many minerals or trace metals. The minerals were in the ground rock and not in the
colloidal form as many claim. The following link gives a chemical composition of
the glacial milk of Hunza. It may or may not be correct. Most of the other
information on the following link is false.Death Rides a Slow Bus in Hunza by Jane Kinderlehrer

The Hunza Bread Recipe and the Hunza
Pie Myths.

The Hunza people made a hard flat
bread from the grains grown in the terraced gardens that was not unlike the bread
made by some North American Indians. However, it was undoubtedly nothing like
the fancy concoction used to make modern day "Hunza bread." The
Hunzakuts never made a pie and would not recognize the modern day pie that many
claim originated with them.

The Hunzakuts would crush the grain
between two rocks to make a very coarse flour, mix it with water, and roll it into a flat pancake shape. The dough was cooked slightly on top of a
heated rock in the days before metal pans were available. The bread was stacked
for serving during the meal.

The Hunzakuts were not extremely
healthy as many claim. The Mir told Renee Taylor that the people were free of
all diseases. This was not true. The Hunzakuts were always disease ridden, and the
death rate was very high as observed by John Clark 10 years before the
arrival of Renee Taylor. Clark was met by hordes of sick people who were seeking medical
attention in every
village (oasis) he visited. He diagnosed many
diseases and treated those whom he could help. The diseases he listed are:

Dysentery

Ringworm

Impetigo

Cataracts

Eye infections

Tuberculosis

Scurvy

Malaria

Ascariasis (worms)

Leucoderma

Staphylococcus

Dental caries

Soft teeth

Goitre

Bronchitis

Sinusitis

Chapped and bleeding hands

Beriberi

Influenza

Pneumonia

Infections

Rheumatic knees of sub-clinical
rickets

John Clark made a survey of the
Hunza boys
in his school to ascertain how many of the students had lost family members.
This shows the terribly high mortality rate of the Hunza people. They were not
healthy and free of disease as falsely claimed. The
results are shocking for these boys between the ages of 12 and 16.

Name

Dead Relatives

Gohor Hayat

Mother, 3 brothers, 2 sisters

Sherin Beg

1 Brother, 1 sister

Nur-ud-Din

Mother, 2 brothers, 2 sisters

Muhammed Hamid

Mother, 1 sister

Burhan Shah

1 Brother, 1 sister

Nasar Muhammed

Mother, 2 brothers, 1 sisters

Mullah Madut

2 Brothers

Suleiman

1 Brother

Ghulan Rasul

Father

The design of the stone huts was a
health hazard. The stone dwelling had two levels with holes in the second floor and the roof to serve as a smoke vent for the fire pit
in the middle of the ground level.
The Hunzakuts never invented the fireplace or chimney, and those who ventured
outside of Hunza never bothered to bring back a better design. The rooms in the
winter were continually smoky, and eye irritation was a chronic problem.
Additional ventilation was available in summer, and fires were not used as much.
The houses had no window openings. The huts were not designed as well as those of the
North American Plains Indians and the Eskimos of Northern Canada and
Alaska.

One boy commented that only the
strong survive and the weak die. The death rate among babies and infants was at
least 30 percent, contrary to the Mir's claim that babies rarely died. John Clark called the "healthy Hunza" label a
myth. See page 212.

The True About Organic Farming in Hunza.

Many claims are made in articles,
books, and websites that the awesome health of the Hunzakuts was at least partly
due to organic farming. This is certainly a silly claim. At the time the British
arrived in Hunza during the 1870s, everyone on Earth used organic farming. There were
no chemical fertilizers, no herbicides, no pesticides, and no pasteurization of
milk anyplace on Earth, and
life expectancy was about 40 years of age or less.

Organic farming is actually a very
unhealthy practice that greatly harmed the Hunzakuts. The Hunzakuts fertilized their gardens at least four times
during the growing season because the glacial silt was devoid of organic matter
or nitrogen.
It was sand, not soil. The crops would not grow without a continual supply of
fertilizer because the water quick flushed the nitrogen out of the silt. The
women and girls performed the chore of spreading animal manure on the fields.
They also traveled the paths gathering manure because it was considered to be a
valuable commodity.

The Hunzakuts also defecated in the
fields or carried the human excrement from the latrine near the stone dwelling
to the fields. This practice was done on a continuing basis during the growing
season. John Clark passed through the oasis of Maiun where the people came running to him
seeking medical treatment. Seven children and one younger man had just died from
dysentery during the previous 10 days. It was probably caused by the E-coli or some other bacteria from the
organic vegetables.

The unhealthy practice of spreading
fresh manure on growing vegetables was made worse because the people paid no
attention to washing or cleaning the food. The fruit and vegetables were also
eaten raw in summer when the manure was being spread.

Spreading manure on growing
vegetables is a very dangerous practice, and the Hunzakuts suffered greatly
because of it. Manure should only be spread on the field before plowing in
the spring and never after planting. Dysentery was a common disease, and John Clark suffered from it
himself. He also observed sand from the glacial water, cow and donkey hair, and
animal manure in the chapatis bread flour. Contamination of the wheat, barley, and millet
grains was caused by animals threshing the grains with their feet. He often bit upon "other unpleasant
surprises" in the bread. See page 65 in John Clark's book listed below.

Organic fruit and vegetables sold in
today's supermarkets are a serious health hazard, and thousands of people die
yearly in the United States from E-coli and other bacterial contamination of
organic fruits and vegetables. This health hazard cannot be spoken of by the
major media because of retaliation from supporters of organic foods. In
contrast, there has never been a single death caused by chemical fertilizers, herbicides,
or pesticides being used to grow nonorganic fruit and vegetables.

Hunzakuts did not compost leaves and
chaff as commonly claimed. For some unknown reason they did not develop the
manger concept for feeding animals. They threw the animal fodder into the pens
where much of it would get trampled into the manure. This did not go to waste because everything was eventually spread on the gardens, but the
suggestion that they used a compost pile is false. They simply stacked the
manure prior to carrying it the gardens.

The Honesty, Court System, and the
Social System in Hunza.

The Mir told Renee Taylor that Hunza
had no police and no crime. He described Hunza as Perfect Land. This story was
also false. The "Durbar" was an open court of ministers lead by the
Mir. Each village also had a Durbar led by three judges for the trial of less
serious offenses. Hunza had a penal colony at Shimshal Valley where inmates
attended to flocks of sheep owned by the Mir. It was a dreadful sentence to be
banished to Shimshal. The winters were icy
cold and the high winds blew continuously.

To the credit of the Hunza people,
the social system made premarital
sex a serious taboo. The couple would quickly get married if a girl became
pregnant, otherwise couples got married at the same time in December in a great
community ceremony. Murder, adultery, and homosexuality were much more serious,
with the death penalty as punishment upon conviction. Therefore, there were no homosexuals
or cheating spouses in Hunza and very few murders of fellow Hunzakuts.

A winter feast called the
Tumushuling was held following the December Wedding Day. The meal consisted of
chapatis (bread), meat, rice, and plates of butter. Animals were killed for the
winter festival as a special treat and because of the shortage of grain and dried fruit.
Only the village chiefs, other prominent men, new bridegrooms, and the Mir
attended, and a song of the history of Hunza was sung. It lasted for several hours
and ended in a food fight with flying pieces of chapatis and gobs of butter.

Hunzakuts were not above murder and
theft in past centuries when they continually raided trade caravans traveling
through the nearby mountain passes, but that practice was discontinued in the
late 1800s.

Honesty was another
problem since the
social system made dishonesty the best policy. Life in Hunza was highly
competitive and unorganized. The people cared only for those in their immediate
family. One man could not be trusted to take his neighbor's farm produce to the
market in Gilgit. Each farmer had to take his own produce. Since cheating, lying, and
stealing were the norm, a Hunzakut would lie or tell any fable that would give
him an advantage. It is no surprise that many of the people falsely claimed to
be over 100 years of age. The crime rate was so bad that John Clark had the
shoes stolen off his horse in Mount Ultar Nullah (canyon) by the Mir's own sheepherders, and
his personal items were stolen from a locked room in the old palace by one of the Mir's servants
who had a key.
The village chief stole some of Clark's medicines that were critical for his
treating the people. The Mir would do nothing about these incidences. See page
98. The picture is of the Old Palace where John Clark lived and had his school.
It was also known as the Fort. Click the picture to see an enlargement.

A Hunzakut could not be trusted to
pay an agreed amount for a service or material goods to be delivered. Neither could a
Hunzakut be trusted to deliver a service or goods if the payment were made in
advance. For these reasons the people did not deal much with each other. Most of
the dealings were only within family groups where the people were more hesitant
to cheat a relative. John Clark assigned one of his students the task of
purchasing food from the villagers. The student would only contact his family
members and reported that the food item was not available if his family did not
have it. He would not seek the food any other place in the village. John Clark gained the trust of the people by his fair and honest
dealings. He paid the agreed amount upon completion of the work or delivery of
the goods. He also paid well and frequently gave a bonus for good performance.

The unusual practices in the Hunza
court (or Durbar) promoted dishonesty as well. Guilt was not decided by the one
who started an incident but by the one throwing the worst insults. The guilty
party was fined for minor offenses with half of the fine going to the judges and
the other half to the Mir. The innocent party was also expected to pay an equal
amount as a gift to the judges; therefore, the guilty and the innocent suffered
equally. As a result, few complaints were brought before the authorities.

The Hunza villagers paid taxes on their farm
produce to
the Mir. They were also required to work part time on the Mir's personal
property and projects without pay. Two boys the same age as the Mir's son were
assigned as companions to the Crown Prince and were to be servants for life. See Clark's book page 216.

Modern Hunza, Pakistan.

The
dangerously rugged trail from Gilgit, Pakistan, into the Hunza River Valley was
improved in the mid-1950s to accommodate Mir Jamal Khan's newly acquired used
Jeep. John Clark traveled on foot and horseback during his visit in 1950 and
1951. Dr. Allen E. Banik travel via Jeep during his visit in 1958 as did others thereafter.

The dangerous road was improved over
the years to become the Karakorum Highway. This picture is overlooking the
village of Ganesh near the capitol of Baltit. The road winds down the side of
the valley as it traverses the terraced fields. Rock slides in other areas continue to
require constant attention in order to keep the road open.

Hunza is a common destination for
tourists traveling to Pakistan because of all of the past hype about the longevity and
exceeding good health of the residents. The contrast between the spectacular
Himalayan mountain peaks and the lush terraced gardens makes Hunza the
photographers' paradise.

A fruit tree in the foreground can
be seen in full bloom with a glimpse of the Hunza river in the top left. The
tall and narrow Lombard poplar trees have been grown here for centuries because
they are fast growing, provide good firewood, and don't shade the vegetable
gardens.

Hunza exports people. The valley
will not support the growing population. Many young adults leave Hunza for other
areas of Pakistan for employment. They send money and goods back to their
families in Hunza. The farm can be passed to a son but is too small to divide
between more than one son.

Tourism provides another source of
income. Exports and natural resources are severely limited. Without an export, a
country or area does not have the money to purchase imports. This economic truth
has kept Hunza from progressing.

Summary.

Mir
Muhammed Jamal Khan enjoyed a good show of deception. His visit with Dr. Allen
E. Banik in 1958 was a good example. The Mir invited Dr. Banik to witness a mock
trial in the Old Palace (Fort) that had been built centuries before high on the
side of the valley in Baltit. As they left the Mir's new Palace, the Mir said
"to start without him, as he wanted a little time to dress for the
occasion." Dr. Banik and his photographer struggled up the long, steep
climb to the Old Palace and rested for a couple of minutes before entering. They
were shocked to find the Mir of Hunza seated on his throne beautifully attired
in his ceremonial robes, plumed cap, and ancient sword. Dr. Banik had a 15-minute
head start, but the Mir sat cool and comfortable with no sign of fatigue. Dr.
Banik ask if the Mir had come by horseback. He replied laughingly, "Why, of
course not! I walked - it was just a short jaunt." Naturally, the Mir has
ridden a horse. This was a show of deception attempting to trick Dr. Banik into
believing the people of Hunza were super-human. Dr. Banik believed the trick by convincing
himself and the readers that it was possible because the Mir had a longer
stride. See Dr. Banik's book page 107. The scientific fact is that having a
longer stride does not reduce the work required to hike the hill. Short-legged
people do very well climbing mountains. Dr. Banik must have failed his college
physics class.

The Scientific American Mind
magazine in the July 25, 2005, issue ran a front page story titled, The Joy of
Telling Lies - Everybody Does It - Because It Works. Deception runs like a
red thread throughout all of human history. The Hunzakuts were no different. The
Hunzakuts excelled in falsehoods about their ages, state of health, and happiness
because they benefited. The Mir encouraged the deception because he thought the
people would be happier. The Mir prevented John Clark from taking two students
to the United States for further education because the Mir feared the boys would be
dissatisfied in Hunza after their return. He was shielding his people from the
world.

Hunza was not a democracy as falsely
reported. The Mir
(King) was a strong dictator. His meeting with the ministers from each village
was called a Durbar where the ministers brought up concerns and problems. The Mir
ask for their opinion but in the end they were simply "yes" men. The
Mir had such control over the subjects of Hunza that a farmer refrained from
correcting the river channel when the river had begun eroding his farm land. The
farmer had to get permission from the Mir before trying to save his farm. See
John Clark page 105.

The Hunza people did not enjoy
exceptionally long life as falsely claimed. It is doubtful that anyone in Hunza ever lived to be
100 year of age. The ages claimed by the Hunzakuts were simply lies. They
considered age to be a matter of wisdom and achievement, not calendar years.
They kept no written records and did not know their calendar age.

This picture was taken in 1961.
Queen Rani is on the left. Mir Jamal Khan is third from the left. His age was
accurately known because he was royalty. He was born on September 23, 1912, and
died in Gilgit, Pakistan, on March 18, 1976. He was only 49 when this picture was
taken but looks much older. He only lived to age 64. He certainly was not a
symbol of longevity.

The Hunza people were not healthy or
free from disease. They suffered greatly from a multitude of diseases. They had
poor dental health and infections. They lived in a very unsanitary environment.
The one benefit was the extreme isolation that reduced the number of contagious
diseases. Cancer and heart disease may have been rare, but it is unknown for
certain because the dead were never examined by a professional.

The Hunza diet was not the perfect
diet as claimed. Diet deficiencies abound. The diet was seriously deficient in iodine, omega-3 fatty acids, and
amino acids from proteins. Many of the diseases treated by John Clark were the
result of the a nutritional deficiency.

Tuberculosis
is a good example of a disease that causes death for those with a protein
deficiency. The Hunzakuts suffered and died from tuberculosis as reported by
John Clark. The immune system is made entirely from amino acids derived from
eating protein. Meat is the best source of amino acids. The Hunzakuts developed
tuberculosis and died as a result of protein deficiency. Dr. Weston E. Price in
the 1920s, and Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the 1910s discovered that
Eskimos who developed tuberculosis while living in the white man's settlements
and eating carbohydrates were cured after being transferred to live with the
natives on their traditional all-meat diet. Moving the sick Eskimos out of the
settlements to return to the native way was a proven cure for diseases.

The Hunzakuts were not a wonderfully
happy people as claimed. The women in Hunza were treated harshly.
They were not allowed an education and were highly restricted in public. The women
endured hard labor in smoky dwellings and suicide was not uncommon. They would
either eat the poison pits from the bitter apricot or jump from a convenient cliff.

The grains did not mature faster in
Hunza than other places as falsely reported by Dr. Allen E. Banik. The vegetation
and trees in Hunza showed signs of nutritional deficiency as reported by John
Clark. Hunza is an artificial environment
that depends on hard manual labor to keep the terraced gardens watered and
fertilized. The silt used to make the gardens is not organic soil. It is ground rock
that originates from the grinding of the glacier as it moves down the high
mountain valley above. The silt contains many minerals but lacks phosphates and
organic matter. Fertilization with animal dung and human excrement is required
several times during the growing season to keep the plants and trees healthy.
Even so, the growing conditions are not ideal. Luckily, the glacial milk does not
contain harmful minerals or metals in sufficient quantities to cause health
problems for the vegetation, animals, or humans. No two glacial milks are the
same. Glacial water from other
areas of the Earth are each different from one another. The content depends completely on the composition
of the rock over which they flow.

The Hunza people were no different
from other people who lived in isolated high mountain communities. Most of the
books written about the Hunzakuts are simply fiction and myths flamed by the
imagination into believing the Hunza River Valley was a magical Garden of Eden
where people never got sick. The people of Hunza recognized a century ago that
pretending to be centenarians brought visitors bearing money and gifts. They
certainly must have been laughing after retreating to the privacy of their
homes. Primitive people the world over have been known to tell tall tales about
themselves to strangers visiting their land. Lying about one's age is as old as
mankind. The people of Hunza are known for their consistent exaggerations of age
in order to gain respect and social status. The social structure of Hunza
encouraged lying and cheating as a profitable way to better one's self.

Scientific facts about Hunza have
been impossible to obtain. Since the British first entered Hunza, the ruling Mir
has placed a severe restriction on visitors to the valley. Permission was required from both Pakistan and the State of Hunza. Scientific studies or
independent investigations were strictly forbidden. An invitation from the Mir of
Hunza was essential to obtain a special-entry permit. As late as 1960 there were
no hotels, no restaurants, and no stores to buy food. Chosen visitors were
generally guests of the Mir in the capital of Baltit where they were told
make-believe story instead of the truth about Hunza.

The Mir of Hunza never provided
verification of the longevity of the Hunzakuts and never allowed others to
investigate. The Hunzakuts of the past were no older than they appeared and may
have actually been younger than they appeared. The longevity was a hoax from the
beginning, and the diet did not produce a super-human race. Hunza could best be described as an
isolated high mountain kingdom founded on betrayal and struggling for existence
by deceiving the world.

Hunza has been mostly ignored by the
surrounding nations because it has no strategic importance whatsoever. The
valley is simply inconsequential except for the myth that the people had record
longevity on a near vegetarian diet. However, the Hunza River Valley did provide
many health benefits. The Hunza people of the past were
forced to adopt a lifestyle that has been shown to have many healthy features.

Babies were nursed at the breast
for several years. The weak and those that could not nurse simply died.

Obesity caused by excessive
calorie consumption was unknown, although malnutrition was a serious
problem.

Work and physical activity aided
in overall well-being.

Isolation prevented many
communicable diseases.

Dry air at a high elevation
reduced the incidence of many communicable diseases.

Rodents and insects that
transmit disease were rare in the isolated high mountain valley.

Processed and refined foods were
non existent.

Sugar was a very rare commodity
in 1950 because of the very high cost and was nonexistent earlier.

Honey was not available.

Imports were unavailable because
of the isolation and the lack of any exportable commodity.

Everyone struggled equally.
There was not an overworked slave class or lazy ruling class in the social
structure, both of which tend to reduce life span.

Many people have tried to
capitalize on the Hunza myth by writing books and selling diet programs.
Many of these people actually believed the Hunza myth themselves and tried
to duplicate the diet in their own lives. The result was always failure.
Good health was never achieved. A typical fraudulent diet program called the
"BioCalendar Health System" was advertised in The Kansas City
Times on May 18, 1978, on page 18D by a group calling themselves The
American Health Institute, 125 American Health Institute Boulevard, Canton,
Ohio, 44767.

Reactions Received From This
Web Page.

The myths, distortions, and
lies about Hunza persist because many people jump on the bandwagon when
they see a good scam for making money selling fraudulent books. This fact
applies to the story about Hunza. John Clark has been the only honest author
to write about Hunza. He lived in Hunza for 20 months. Others only visited
for a few days. It was very rare that a visitor would be allowed to stay as
long as John Clark did, but that was in the days before Hunza because an
attraction for foreigners. Other book authors only allowed to visit for a
few days. The ruler of Hunza would not let people stay for any extended
period like the opportunity given to John Clark, but he too was kicked out
of Hunza after 20 long months. The Hunza people realized their fraudulent
lies filled their pockets with money from the rich visitors willing to cross
the palm of the hand with generous amounts of money for an interview or
picture. Old people from Pakistan who were in their 80s or 90s moved to
Hunza to pose for money while claiming to be 150 year of age or so. Scammers
are making money on both ends, the people of Hunza and the foreign book
writers.

A Hunza resident has a tour
guide business in Hunza for foreigners to see the people, gardens, and the
surrounding rivers and mountains. He has written me several times in the
last two years. He has NEVER contradicted anything on this web page. He is a
very friendly and pleasant person. I enjoyed immensely each of his emails. I
only get hate mail from English speaking vegetarians, never from the
residence of Hunza.

Primitive People Who Were Truly
Healthy.

Weston
A. Price, DDS, traveled worldwide in the 1930's to investigate the
health of primitive peoples who could not obtain foods of the western world. He
and his wife found that all of these primitive groups ate a diet very high in
fat. Some ate primarily animal meat and fat while others ate primarily seafood.
Their diets did not make a difference in their health. They were all extremely
healthy, strong, robust, and had almost no dental cavities. They all had a broad
dental arch (jaw shapes), and the women had very easy childbirths because of the
broad pelvic structure. Children of these people who moved to a modern society
area developed crowded teeth with many cavities, and the women suffered
difficulties in childbirth similar to our present western society. The
"civilized" Indians of northern Canada also suffered greatly from
tuberculosis and were sent back to live with the primitives where they were
cured of their disease by the primitive diet which was nearly 100% meat with the
fat.

Weston A. Price was different from
most visitors to Hunza. He performed a scientific investigation and told the
truth about the people he visited. John Clark presented a clear picture of the
Hunza people in his book, but other visitors to Hunza were merely propaganda tools
for the Mir.

A recent TV documentary was produced
in the country of Georgia, formerly part of the Soviet Union, by a Professor
from the University of Colorado in Boulder. The Georgian people who were visited
live on the high Caucasus mountain slopes at about 8,000 feet elevation on small
farm plots surrounded by high peaks. The terrain was similar to that of people
living on small farmers high in the Swiss Alps as reported by Dr. Weston A.
Price. Their diet is identical to that of the Swiss people. Reaching the area
was very difficult even with the use of a four-wheel drive Jeep. The amazing
characteristic of these people is their longevity, where members living 100
years of age are common. The people raise farm animals and grow hay, vegetables,
and some grain. They had no fruit because of the high elevation, and they had no
imports because of their remote location. The animals were protected from the
harsh winters on the ground floor of the house which served as a barn. The
people lived on the second and third floors. The commentator said they ate meat,
butter, and high-fat yogurt with every meal. The commentator described it as
"very un-Boulder" in reference to the liberal college community of
Boulder, Colorado, where a low-fat, vegetarian diet philosophy is rampant. They
made good use of the farm animal products. They ate lots of meat, saturated
fats, butter, and lard. The remaining food was a small amount of bread made from
whole grain and a few seasonal vegetables. They did not import high-carbohydrate
foods such as sugar, honey, white flour, orange juice, or fruit. They did not
have Omega-6 vegetable oils, trans-fats, or hydrogenated oil. They are lucky
people. Their food supply is a perfect example of the Atkins' low-carbohydrate
diet. The long-term health benefits of the low-carbohydrate diet are clearly
demonstrated by the these mountain people of Georgia. A study of Georgian people
found the people who ate the most meat and fat lived the longest.The
Long-Living of Soviet Georgia by G.Z. Pitskhelauri.

French women have the lowest rate of
heart disease in the Western world. They eat high levels of butter, cheese and
animal fats. France is reported to have 265 brands of cheese typically
containing 45% to 50% saturated fats. They are more healthy because of their
high level of saturated fat and low level of sugar and refined carbohydrates in
the diet. This high level of saturated fat with a low heart disease rate has
become known as the French
paradox by the confused low-fat dietitians. Unfortunately, the
French are turning away from their natural foods to manufactured
high-carbohydrate foods.

The peoples of Thailand
are another paradox. They have a very low level of heart disease and diabetes
but consume exceedingly high levels of saturated fat in coconut oil and pork
lard.

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